Other people's marriages

They were five families; the hospitable Frosts; the brash and sexy Cleggs; flirtatious Jimmy and aloof Star; the reliable Ransoms; and the perfect Wickhams.

Old friends, their lives are interwoven through comfortable patterns of life.

Then rich, sophisticated and newly widowed Nina Cort returns to her childhood city.

In the course of a year, the five families and Nina discover you can never truly know the fabric of other people's marriages...